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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVictoria's Secret model Devon Windsor Relates To Women Of Color, Because She's Blonde
You know how hard it is to be blonde? I have to get a highlight every month!
Do you know how expensive that is?
I literally f___ing went through hell and literally lived in different countries like every other month and didnt speak the language, she said.
I didnt speak Paris,
didnt speak Italian.
And I did that for like, two years.
She posted this apology on Sunday, saying how her comments really came across as incredibly insensitive.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/devon-windsor-problems-women-of-color-face-blonde_us_5b983494e4b0511db3e6ec68

dchill
(42,660 posts)cyclonefence
(5,167 posts)this woman has provided fuel for the bigoted opinion that blondes are stupid.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)She thinks she's blonde.
Iggo
(50,056 posts)a kennedy
(36,348 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Iggo
(50,056 posts)I didn't, but I'm starting to.
lapfog_1
(31,980 posts)genxlib
(6,161 posts)I literally don't think this woman understands the meaning of literally. Unless of course she has actually been to hell.
It does not surprise me since she thinks Paris is a language.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,848 posts)like totally literally shit my pants my first week there. I mean literally, by which I mean I didn't actually shit them but it like felt like I did!
Wounded Bear
(64,637 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)First lesson's free, but then I start charging.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)malaise
(297,947 posts)She got the dumb blonde part
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)How about adding stupid and ignorant too?
TheBlackAdder
(29,981 posts)TheBlackAdder
(29,981 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)"I didn't speak Paris"?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Fellow model Ping Hue wasnt impressed.
Oh my God, tiny violin, she said.
jrthin
(5,231 posts)LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)A lobotomy would not help her.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Or should I say 'miner surgery' because they would have to dig deep?
erpowers
(9,446 posts)Her comments were just too stupid and too self-absorbed. To compare herself to black women because she had lived in countries were she did not speak the language and due to her having blonde hair was completely stupid and self-absorbed. She cannot relate to black women based on those things alone. Black women have had to do with being mistreated in their own country while they spoke the language of their country. Having to pay large amounts of money to dye your hair is not the same as being mistreated solely due to your race.
Solly Mack
(97,269 posts)betsuni
(29,292 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Why would a natural blonde need highlights? We have plenty here in Florida and a lot of them are really, really blonde (even blonde eyebrows), none seem to do highlights.
JHB
(38,337 posts)
edbermac
(16,487 posts)
JI7
(93,904 posts)Raine
(31,237 posts)I guess that's why she's stopped doing her black roots.
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